Ascenseur pour l'échafaud AKA Elevator to the gallows (1958) - classic French crime movie directed by Louis Malle, starring Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau and Georges Poujouly

Rating 7.9/10
Runtime: 92 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Louis Malle
IMDb Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0051378

Cast

Jeanne Moreau ... Florence Carala
Maurice Ronet ... Julien Tavernier
Georges Poujouly ... Louis
Yori Bertin ... Véronique
Jean Wall ... Simon Carala
Elga Andersen ... Frieda Bencker
Sylviane Aisenstein ... Yvonne, La fille du bar
Micheline Bona ... Geneviève
Gisèle Grandpré ... Jacqueline Mauclair

Description: The former Captain Julien Tavernier works in the company of the powerful arms dealer Simon Carala and is the lover of his wife Florence Carala. Julien and Florence plot a scheme to kill Simon simulating a suicide. Julien stays after-hours in the company with the telephone operator and the doorman and comes to his office. He climbs to Simon's office using a rope outside the window and kills the executive. He runs to his office to attend a phone call and forgets the rope, and leaves the building with the two employees to have an alibi. When he is ready to drive his car, he sees the rope hanging outside the building and he returns to withdraw the rope, leaving his overcoat and revolver in the car. Then the things get even more complicated...

Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/TrQAZydDBJe


A set of extras included:

* New interview with actress Jeanne Moreau (2005, 18 mins)
* Archival interviews with Louis Malle (1975, 17:06), actors Maurice Ronet (1975, 4:37) and original soundtrack session pianist René Urtreger (14:43)
* Footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle from the soundtrack recording session (5:51)
* Interview - Malle and Moreau at Cannes (1993, 10:40) * "Miles goes modal" - new video program about the score with jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins (25:01)
* Malle's student film "Crazeologie", featuring the title song by Charlie Parker (1954, 6:17)
* Original theatrical trailer and Rialto release trailer
* Soundtrack - Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a jazz fan and Malle's assistant at the time, suggested asking Miles Davis to create the film's soundtrack - possibly inspired by the Modern Jazz Quartet's recording for Roger Vadim's Sait-on jamais (Does One Ever Know), released a few months earlier in 1957. Miles was booked to perform at the Club St-Germain in Paris for November 1957. Rappeneau introduced him to Malle, and Miles agreed to record the music after attending a private screening. On December 4, he brought his four sidemen to the Le Poste Parisien recording studio without having had them prepare anything. Miles only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room, and, once the plot was explained, the band improvised without any precomposed theme, while edited loops of the musically relevant film sequences were projected in the background. Jazz Track, an album that contains ten songs from this soundtrack, received a 1960 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance, Solo or Small Group. This upload is also containing all of the outtakes and raw recordings without reverb which were previously unreleased. Personnel include Miles Davis on Trumpet, Barney Wilgen on tenor sax, Rene Urteger on piano, Pierre Michelot on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums


Tracks 1-16 are released for the first time, tracks 17-26 are the original release from 1958.

Track List (344 MB, FLAC)

1. Generique
2. Assassinat de Carala
3. Sur l'Autoroute
4. Julien dans l'Ascenseur
5. Florence Sur Les Champs-Elysees
6. Diner au Motel
7. Evasion de Julien
8. Visite du Vigile
9. Bar du Petit Bac
10. Chez le Photographe du Motel
11. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees [Take 1]
12. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees [Take 2]
13. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees [Generique]
14. Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees [Florence Sur Les Champs-Elysees]
15. Assassinat [Take 1]
16. Assassinat [Julien dans L`Ascenseur]
17. Assassinat [L`Assassinat de Carala]
18. Motel (Diner au Motel)
19. Final [Take 1]
20. Final [Take 2]
21. Final [Chez le Photographe du Motel]
22. Ascenseur [Evasion de Julien]
23. Ascenseur [Evasion de Julien]
24. Petit Bal [Au Bar du Petit Bac]
25. Sequence Voiture [Take 1]
26. Sequence Voiture [Sur l'Autoroute]


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.58 GB, 2477 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790*480 (1.66:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 87 MB, 132 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech) posters and screenshots included